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PHILIPPINE AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH CEBU PACIFIC KOREA BRANCH COUNTRY MANAGER


25 January 2025, Seoul. Philippine Ambassador to the Republic of Korea H.E. Theresa Dizon-De Vega received the courtesy call of Mr. Hyukshin Kang, Country Manager of Cebu Pacific Korea Branch on 23 January 2025.

Mr. Kang shared that Cebu Pacific Korea’s operations in 2024 yielded very good results in general. For this year, Cebu Pacific Korea will continue to focus on increasing ticket sales to domestic destinations in the Philippines via the Manila route as well as increasing its fleet capacity to accommodate more travelers. 

Bilateral relations between the Philippines and the Republic of Korea boasts of strong people-to-people ties, manifested in the increasing number of tourist arrivals in both nations and continued two-way travel. In 2024, visitors from South Korea accounted for 1.31 million tourist arrivals in the Philippines, which constituted 26.9 percent of the country’s total foreign visitors. This was an 11.4 percent increase from the previous year, solidifying South Korea’s status as a vital partner in the Philippines’s tourism industry. END 

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